Full Description
Cosmology's journey to the present day has been a long one. This book outlines the latest research on modern cosmology and related topics from world-class experts. Through it, readers will learn how multi-disciplinary approaches and technologies are used to search the unknown and how we arrived at the knowledge used and assumptions made by cosmologists today. The book is organized into four parts, each exploring a theme that has troubled humankind for centuries. Since the dawn of time, looking at the sky, humans have tried to understand their origin, the laws governing it, and what influence it all has on human life. In most ancient civilizations, astronomers embodied the power of knowledge. This knowledge was not compartmentalized, and scientists often found philosophical implications within their quests, many of which destroyed the borders between the natural sciences. Even now, as observers and scientists continue to use conjecture to generate theoretical assumptions and laws that then have to be confirmed experimentally, said theoretical and experimental searches are being linked to philosophical thinking and artistic representation, as they were up until the 18th century. This multi-disciplinary book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the fields of Astronomy, Cosmology or Physics.
Contents
Part 1: From Astronomy to Modern Cosmology.- Chapter 1 - Looking at the sky: from Galileo to Newton to Einstein (Ugo Moschella).- Chapter 2 - Cosmological thinking from myths to science (cosmology in emerging quantum mechanics) (Gabriele Veneziano).- Chapter 3 - Modern cosmological theories (Kai Schmitz).- Part 2: Search of dark matter, dark energy, Black Holes, star formation and other cosmological searches.- Chapter 4 - Introduction on CERN search of Dark Matter and other searches relevant for astrophysics (Suchita Kulkarni).- Chapter 5 - Searching for Dark matter with the ATLAS detector (Caterina Doglioni and Dan Tovey).- Chapter 6 - Searching for Dark matter with the CMS detector (Deborah Pinna).- Chapter 7 - Probing Stealth Dark Sectors with LHCb (Carlos Vázquez and José Zurita).- Chapter 8 - Hunting Dark Matter Axions with CAST (Marios Maroudas and Kaan Ozbozduman).- Chapter 9 - FASER: the lifetime frontier at the LHC and the search for dark matter (Michaela Queitsch-Maitland).- Chapter 10 - BASE Testing Fundamental Symmetrics with High Precision Comparisons of the Properties of Antiprotons and Protons (Stefan Ulmer).- Chapter 11 - NA64 Search for Dark Sector Particles (Dipanwita Banerjee).- Part 3: Space searches.- Chapter 12 - The AMS experiment on the International Space Station (Maura Graziani and Nicola Tomassetti).- Chapter 13 - The right key-Four spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station (Claudio Bortolin and Paola Catapano).- Part 4: Gravitational waves.- Chapter 14 - Gravitational Waves: Why and How (Federico Ferrini).- Part 5: Underground Discovery of Dark Matter.- Chapter 15 - Under the Gran Sasso (Cristiano Galbiati and Walter Bonivento).- Part 6: Optical Astronomy.- Chapter 16 - Big telescopes and observatories: hi-tech challenges for great astronomical science (Gianni Marconi and Riccardo Scarpa).- Chapter 17 - Other worlds in the cosmos: from philosophy to scientific reality (Michel Mayor, Emeline Bolmont, Vincent Bourrier, David Ehrenreich and Christoph Mordasini).- Part 7: Philosophy.- Chapter 18 - Space, time and matter in the primordial Universe (Francesca Vidotto).- Part 8: Art.- Chapter 19 - The shore between Art and Science (Enrico Magnani).
